Sutton Homes of Care

The vanguard and the people it serves

The Sutton Homes of Care vanguard sees partners from across health and care working together with care homes and local communities to provide high quality, value for money services that enhance the health and wellbeing of care home residents.

The partners are drawn from a range of NHS and voluntary sector organisations including:

Sutton care homes

NHS Sutton Clinical Commissioning Group

the London Borough of Sutton

Epsom and St Helier Hospitals NHS Trust

St Raphael’s Hospice

Sutton and Merton Community Services (the community division of The Royal Marsden)

Age UK Sutton

South West London and St George’s Mental Health Trust

The Alzheimer’s Society

London Ambulance Service

Sutton Centre for the Voluntary Sector

Together, the partners serve a population of 190,000.

What is changing?

The vanguard is focused on developing three key components:

integrated care

education and training

quality assurance and safety

A number of interventions or actions to prevent unnecessary hospital admissions are already improving the quality of care provided. The aim now is to reach a greater number and range of care home residents, further developing and enhancing the programme.

Joined up teams of medical, nursing, social care and voluntary sector professionals will work together to improve care for each individual, which will result in improved outcomes, particularly for residents with complex long-term conditions or mental illness, including dementia.

Whilst much has already been achieved, the vanguard believes that further work could bring even greater benefits not only in Sutton but also for care home residents nationally through replication of its successful strategies as part of the vanguard programme.

Key benefits

Consistently safe and high quality nursing and social care in care homes